Leadership Newspaper

Leadership was born on 1st October, 2004. On this particular day, the newspaper entered the Nigerian market as a weekly. The acceptance of LEADERSHIP by readers was almost instantaneous because of some factors: The Publisher, Mr. Sam Nda-Isaiah, was already a best-selling author, having published and launched a compilation of his articles in LAST WORD, a column he wrote for the Daily Trust newspaper. The column, which sold Daily Trust newspaper, was reintroduced in LEADERSHIP. Naturally, curious readers, who wanted to follow the columnist and assess his newspaper, became buyers of LEADERSHIP. By the end of 2006, the newspaper had already become popular as a barometer for gauging public policy issues. The newspaper, which was initially stitched like a book, became a must-read for the intelligentsia in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, and indeed the entire nation.
On February 1, 2006, Leadership became a daily newspaper. As a daily, the newspaper has been publishing LEADERSHIP; LEADERSHIP FRIDAY; LEADERSHIP WEEKEND; LEADERSHIP SUNDAY; LEADERSHIP HAUSA – which came on stream much later; Cognoscenti – a 16-page magazine pull-out in LEADERSHIP WEEKEND, as well as CEOConfidential – a 12-page magazine pull-out in LEADERSHIP SUNDAY. Also in the company’s stable is GOVERNMENT, a weekly newspaper on governance and Leadership patterned after Barrons.
LEADERSHIP Newspapers Group Ltd has been awarded “Newspaper of the Year” twice in the last five years by the Abuja Newspapers Vendors Association and as the “Most Improved Newspaper.”